Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.
Alicia Izharuddin is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, in Malaysia. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, in 2014 and her research focuses on gender and sexuality in Malaysia and Indonesia from a feminist perspective.
Innehållsförteckning
Gender and the divine pleasures of the cinema.- Dakwah at the cinema: identifying the generic parameters of Islamic films.- Visualising Muslim women and men: a longue durée.- Gender, Islam and the nation in New Order Islamic films.- Empowered Muslim femininities?: representations of women in post-New Order film Islami.- Poor, polygamous but deeply pious: Muslim masculinities in post-New Order film Islami.